(La Porte County, IN) - La Porte County Auditor Tim Stabosz is accusing another elected official of putting out a flyer urging people not to vote for him as county commissioner.

 

Stabosz said he strongly believes the five-page flyer is the work of La Porte County Commissioner Connie Gramarossa, who’s been blasting him on local radio stations the past few days leading up to today’s primary election. Stabosz alleged that Gramarossa wants to try and stop him and Commissioner Joe Haney from gaining the Republican nomination for seats on the three-member County Commission.

 

“My hope is the public can see this for what it is. Someone who’s completely off the rails, who had disgraced herself in the Republican Party,” he said.

 

One of the wings in the fractured party is upset with Gramarossa for switching her support from Haney to Commissioner Rich Mrozinski several weeks after taking her seat on the commission last year. 

 

“This flyer attacks a dozen different people.  It’s not something we need but it’s par for the course for the Gramarossa’s. People call her Chicago Connie for a reason,” he said.

 

Gramarossa has denied having any involvement with the flyer.

 

“That’s an absolute lie,” she said.

 

Gramarossa said she’s been on the radio trying to “let people know what the county employees have been trying to deal with for the last three and a half years” while Stabosz has been county auditor.

 

“He has weaponized his office, gone after department heads, gone after employees within his own department is absolutely wrong,” she said.

 

Gramarossa said that even though she had nothing to do with the flyer, the information on it, such as past-due bills Stabosz failed to pay since 2023, is accurate.

 

“Did we not lose our bond rating during his administration? These are functions that belong to the auditor’s office,” she said.

 

Gramarossa, who’s not up for reelection this year, said not everybody over the years has been happy at times with county government, but what’s been happening regularly in recent years has been extreme.

 

“We haven’t had the type of chaos and destruction in the county since they both took office and that is the truth. That is truth,” she said.